When was queensland formed

Over the next 3 years, nearly 25, people landed in Queensland attracted by the idea of owning land. The discovery of payable gold near Rockhampton was one of many discoveries that encouraged development in Queensland and helped to protect the state from the effects of the Depression. Queensland pioneered the state secondary education system in the early s when the government subsidised municipalities to set up grammar schools—the first free education in Australia. In , Queensland Treasury banknotes were issued for the first time.

The Constitution Act defined the formal institutions of government including parliament and the executive government. In , the current design of the Queensland flag was officially adopted. Local government was established in with the passage of the Divisional Boards Act By , wool had become an enormous industry in Australia. Thousands of shearers, already dissatisfied with their pay rates and conditions, refused to work when a Darling Downs Station employed non-union men.

When Aborigines, Kanaka Islanders and Chinese immigrants began working for even cheaper wages, the potential for revolution dissolved. The strike is remembered as an event that created camaraderie among Australian workers from all backgrounds and launched Labor politics.

From , free settlers and convicts who had been pardoned were encouraged to take up land in the colony. The majority came from Britain and Europe. Many battles took place as Indigenous people resisted the intrusion and occupation of the land for which they had cared for thousands of years. By the s, the people of Moreton Bay were concerned that the government in Sydney was too far away. They began to call for the creation of a new colony, and petitioned the British Government to grant their request to separate from New South Wales.

But, the squatters had rivals who competed for wealth and power. The plantation owners, cattle graziers and mine operators of central and northern Queensland considered their needs and interests to be different from those who governed them from Brisbane. They wanted to separate and form new colonies. Queensland was as large as Europe, and it was not practical or desirable that Brisbane should be the only link with the outside world. Those in the north also had different ideas about migrant labour.

It was this time that saw the growth of a number of industries, particularly sugar production, and by sugar plantations had made it as far north as Cairns.

On the 1 st of January , the Commonwealth of Australia was created. The result was Queensland losing its colonial status to become a state in the new country of Australia. The colonial era was over. At the start of the twentieth century the population of Queensland was at the half a million mark. It was a time of establishment for the new state; Brisbane was proclaimed a city in , women voted in state elections for the first time in , the first National Park was declared in now Tamborine National Park , in the University of Queensland was established, and saw a small airline called Qantas founded to serve outback Queensland.

A number of cities in northern Queensland were bombed during air attacks including Horn Island, Townsville , Cairns and Mossman. There was a massive build-up of Australian and US forces in the state as MacArthur established his headquarters in Brisbane.

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